Electronic video poker games

US6517074B1 · kind B1 · utility

Inventors

• Ernest W. Moody · Las Vegas, US
• Michael W. Wood · Baton Rouge, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 28, 2000
• Grant date: Feb 11, 2003
• Expiry date: Feb 28, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F17/3293
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A card game is described in which the player plays multiple hands of cards. At the beginning of each round of the game, the player determines how many times the player wishes to play the initial deal of the cards and makes an appropriate wager to cover those multiple plays of the initial hand of cards. One hand of five cards is dealt, all five cards face up. The player selects none, one or more of the face up cards from the first hand as cards to be held. Replacement cards for the non-selected cards are dealt into the first hand and the poker hand ranking of the first hand is determined. The initial deal of cards is then re-used and becomes a second hand. The player again selects none, one or more of the face up cards from the second hand as cards to be held. Replacement cards for the non-selected cards are dealt into the second hand and the poker hand ranking of the second hand is determined. These steps are repeated until the player has completed play of all of the hands that the player initial chose to play. The player is paid for any winning poker hands based on a pay table and the amount of the player's wager on each hand. Alternatively, the method of the present invention can…